Culture Now: The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976: Carlo Caldini, Martino Gamper in Conversation with Catharine Rossi and Alex Coles

To launch the first volume of EP, The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976 (Sternberg Press, 2013), the architect Carlo Caldini and the furniture designer Martino Gamper discuss the legacy of the radical Italian avant-garde with the book’s editors, Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi.

Carlo Caldini is a Florence-based architect, and was co-founder (with Giorgio Birelli, Fabrizio Fiumi, and Paolo Galli) of Gruppo 9999. For EP, Carlo Caldini describes how the Space Electronic discotheque devised by Gruppo 9999 in the 1970s served as a progressive multimedia environment that nurtured the convergence of art, music, design, theater, and architecture in Florence.

Martino Gamper is a London-based furniture designer. For EP, Gamper talks with Michelangelo Pistoletto on the importance of Arte Povera as a form of socially engaged practice. Recent projects by Gamper include Monacopolis at The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and the Postmundus Chair for Nilufar in Milan.